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40 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (roster is full) 

28 players on MLB RESERVE LIST are ACTIVE, and twelve players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors. 

Last updated 3-26-2024
 
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PITCHERS: 15
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Jose Cuas
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Caleb Kilian
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Julian Merryweather
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
* Justin Steele
Jameson Taillon
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

INFIELDERS: 7
* Michael Busch 
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
* Miles Mastrobuoni
Christopher Morel
Dansby Swanson
Patrick Wisdom

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Cody Bellinger 
Alexander Canario
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 12 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Ben Brown, P 
Alexander Canario, OF 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Keegan Thompson, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

 



 

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More Coaching Hires

Piniella added a few more bodies to his coaching staff today. Mike Quade was formally announced not only as third base coach, but also as an outfield instructor and baserunning coach. Matt Sinatro, who formerly worked under Lou Piniella as a bullpen coach, will take over first base duties along with catching instructor. Lester Strode was named bullpen coach. Strode had been the Cubs minor league pitching coordinator for the last eleven years. That should only leave the hitting coach with former Red Sox coach Ron Jackson and former Reds coach Chris Chambliss leading the list. Dave Keller has also been mentioned, a Cubs minor league roving instructor.

Comments

Brewers are also looking at Chambliss as a hitting coach btw...

btw AZ Phil mentioned a minority likely being hired to fill out the coaching staff in the previous thread, Lester Strode would qualify for that.

some Canadian moron from a few days ago... http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/columnist.jsp?content=20061024_205932_… Despite denials to the contrary, watch for the Yankees to deal Alex Rodriguez to the Cubs (who will turn him back into a shortstop) for Aramis Ramirez and some pitching. It says here that A-Rod will thrive in Wrigleyville, where the fans love superstars ... Poor canadiens, he also says earlier in the article to look for Girardi to be named Yanks bench coach.

Nice promotion for Les Strode. He has been the Cubs minor league pitching coordinator for the last 11 years. As MLPC, Strode was the senior pitching coach at the Cubs Spring Training Minor League Camp and Extended Spring Training, as well as chief pitching coach for the Cubs Arizona Instructional League team. He also supervised the minor league pitching coaches during the regular season, and worked closely with Oneri Fleita in deciding where each pitcher in the minor league system should be assigned. I can't say that he has the coaching or instructional skills of Iowa pitching coach Alan Dunn, but Lester Strode knows every pitcher in the Cubs organization. He knows their histories, he knows their stengths and weaknesses, and he knows what makes them tick.

I like the way the Piniella is going about his staff, a good mixture of guys he trusts who will bring a new perspective (Trammell, Sinatro) and some guys from within the system who know the players, their histories and tendencies and what has or hasn't worked for them.

brewers ended up hiring some fella named Jim Skaalen as their hitting coach, leaving Chambliss for us if we wish. Felix Pie is 10-27 in the DWL so far with 2 doubles and 7 RBI's, 3 K's and 1 BB

I like the move for Les Strode as well and had always wondered whether he would simply be named pitching coach if Rothschild was not brought back. Does it possibly signal that the team will go with a "home grown" bullpen the next few years (rather than the overpriced-yet-mediocre Eyre/Howry/Remlinger/Veres bullpens of the past)?

Wow, if a team with 83 wins can win the WS, certainly the Cubs can, right? F#*K!!!! Mother F-ing CARDINALS!!!! WTF??? wow, the baseball gods really hate Cubs fans...

congratulations to the worst world series champions of all time. i see no reason the cubs can't finish with more wins than them next year. the question is, do they get more aggressive this offseason (like the white sox did, adding thome) or try to bring back the band for another try (in which case i see them being right around 500 again and not make the playoffs). any team that has 300 truly awful hitters (molina, belliard, wilson) in its healthy lineup is very catchable. see you in april, bitches.

3=300 i got confused bc 300 is very close to their collective OBP sadly, i'm not kidding.

"wow, the baseball gods really hate Cubs fans..." Yes, yes they do.

Now we have to hear from Hendry about the 83-win Cards and how that's a legitimate target for the Cubs to be contenders. Bah.

Saito would be fantastic, but he isn't a free agent yet and I haven't heard anything about Softbank posting him.

DC Tom, Howry and Eyre may be overpriced but they are far better than mediocre. You are correct on the other two though.

what about Von Joshua. Thought he would have been the 1st choice for hitting because he has already proved from his past record his experience with these players. And his past experience as a player. Doesn't Chambliss go team to team with friends? Joshua's record was the best with the Sox, but I believe he was fired as a scapegoat because Manuel had another 2 yrs on his contract. Like to see him with the players he has already developed them why not have him there to keep them all on track. Why start their players with another coach when Joshua had alot to do with getting them there. I know they are getting coaches now that haven't played in the majors/world series but what is Kellers record as a hitting coach with a major league team? Seems like Quade,Strode,Joshua would be a good mix.

Recent comments

  • hellfrozeover (view)

    I really am not interested in the wesneski head case experience again any time soon. Give me smyly over wesneski. Hell give me keegan Thompson over wesneski every day of the week. His stuff isn’t as good but at least he doesn’t melt down mentally every time something goes mildly awry. 

  • crunch (view)

    they might not want to start the clock on brown and give us wesn.  hopefully it won't come to that.

  • crunch (view)

    madrigal ground rule double!

    he blows a play and hits a double.  we're getting bizarro madrigal.

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Close up video shows Steele saying to the Trainer "no it just cramped up"

    Hope so

    Ben Brown and not Smyly please

  • crunch (view)

    agreed and agreed.

    he walked off on his own, but we may not find out for a few days how this will impact the club.

  • hellfrozeover (view)

    Looked like a hamstring rather than a knee, not sure if that’s better or worse. 

  • crunch (view)

    steele leaves the game with a hamstring or knee injury.  sigh.

  • crunch (view)

    ...and a madrigal "non-error" leads to a sac fly for a tie game.  nice.

    having a ball clank off your glove, but still getting it count as a hit because it was hit hard is a nice stats gift.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    For sure. This lineup isn’t exactly stacked as is, and subbing out a Cooper or even a Tauchman for Madrigal won’t do it any favors.

  • crunch (view)

    the ESPN bottom graphic taking up 1/8th of the screen sucks.

    i only use ESPN during baseball season and i'm forced to watch a baseball broadcast designed to be broadcast in sports bars and betting parlors where the news/scores of other games is as important as what you're actually tuned in to watch.